The Coal Authority, which oversees the former pits on behalf of the government, estimates there could be enough energy in the flooded, abandoned mines to heat all of the homes on ...

GLENCORE The London-listed miner produces copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, nickel and coal. Copper, of which it produced 1 million ...

Rio Tinto Group and Glencore Plc have been discussing combining their businesses, which if successful would rank as the ...

Lindsey Hopkins, 75, is one of the more than 3,000 former miners that could be affected and said the government had "thrown ...

Two of the world’s largest miners are plotting a £130bn mega-merger to ride the net zero commodity boom. Rio Tinto and ...

The U.K. closed its last coal-powered plant, but 76-year-old Low Tuck Kwong ignored naysayers and built a fortune from the ...

A proudly stated, clearly defined 'No New Coal Mine' policy is absolutely within the grasp of Labor ahead of the next ...

Britain produced its cleanest electricity on record last year with output of fossil fuels at an all-time low and renewables ...

Ukraine has stopped production at its coking coal mine in Pokrovsk, which feeds the country's steel industry, because of the ...

An organisation which continues to support the clean-up and redevelopment of Derbyshire’s once proud colliery land has marked ...

Dust from open cast mining suffocates surrounding forests and inhibits trees' ability to capture carbon from the atmosphere ...

The BLS estimates that by December of 2024, that figure had dropped to 42,600. The number of U.S. coal mining industry jobs have been declining for many years. In January of 1986, 169,700 people ...